Ecumenical Patriarch Methodios

Ecumenical Patriarch Methodios (780-14 June 847) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 843 to 847, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes VII and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Ignatios.

Biography
Methodios was born to wealthy parents, and he became an abbot before rising to be the Patriarch of Constantinople in 843. He pursued a moderate line of accomodation for former iconoclasts in the clergy after his ascension to power, as iconoclasm had just fallen. He reigned for four years before his death.